Evening Star Newspaper, February 18, 1928, Page 16

TUNING UP FOR ATTEMPT TO BREAK THE WORLD'S SPEED RECORD. Frank Lockhart at the wheel of his new Stutz Blackhawk Spec al. a racing monster of his own design. which he is now grooming at Daytona Beach, Fla.. for tests against the world speed record of 203 miles an hour, held by the Englishman, Maj. Seagrave. The car, which is powered with two §-cylinder motors of 400 horsepower, is designed to reduce air resistance to a m mum. Coj vright by P. & A. Photos. SENATE SECRETARY JOINS THE TRIBE. Miss Mae Finotti, secretary of the Senate Indian affairs committee, is adopted as a member of the Osage Indian tribe by Chief White Horse Eagle, 106-year-old chieftain. It hap- pened when the chief called at the Capitol yesterday on legislative business. Copyright by Undrweod & Underwood William E. Hickman AS HICKMAN HEARD HIS DEATH SENTENCE PRONOUNCED IN COURT. This unusual photograph shows anding with his two attorneys as the court sentenced him to pay the penalty of death for kidnaping and murder of Marian Parker. Jerome Walsh, ¢ hief defence counsel. stands at risnt of the pricamer wiin Asa Keyes, prosecuting attorney, seated at right and Deputy District Attorney Forrest Murray rext to him. ARMY OF MARATHONERS PREPARE FOR START OF TRANSCONTINENTAL RACE NEXT MONTH. Some of the ambitious athletes who are now train- ing at their tent colony, outside Los Angeles, for the promised transcontinental race from the California city to New York, scheduled by the promoter, C. C. Pyle, to start March 4. Cash prizes announced as aggregating $48,000 await those who finish on the Atlantic Coast “in the mone: entered are required to live on the field where they are training. The more than 75 athletes yright by P. &. A. Photos. flight, who also will be a member of t| he South Pole party, said the plane looked of plane since he flew the Josephine Ford over the North Pole with Comdr. Byrd. PLANE FOR SOUTH POLE FLIGHT PERFORMS WELL IN FIRST TEST. The big tri-motored Fokk la; i if i flight since its completion for Comdr. Richard E. Byrd's South Polar ex = .~ S TAIE Ths nean e by oy tec i Got ) pedition, to get under way next Fall. Floyd Bennett. Byrd's pilot on his North Pole good and commented on the great improvements in d made in this type P. & A. Photos. CHINESE THREATEN BOYCOTT ONL.S. [ Labor Unions File Demands - After Alleged-Slaying | by Ship Officer. | | by an Ameri- U threats of a boycott of American goods The Chinese labor unions, especially | the water front cargo handle: the threat result of an which occt ficer F. R. Wi Enipping Board freigh! lent r Edmore is sald shoot a Chinese tnznds W Lee MU |E. BROOKE LEE T0 SPEAK. 1is g 3 e Buncy TRAFFIC MISHAPS CAUSE ONE DEATH Colored Woman Dies of In- juries and Several Others Hurt by Autos. Mary Everman, colored, 29 years old, of 1831 California street, died a few minutes before midnight yesterday, shortly after being taken to Garfield Hospital, from injuries received when ie was struck by an automobile driven Julian Gibbs of 861 Van Buren et at Eighteenth street and Florida red woman to the s car, where she was sustained a fractured taken to the eighth ict and released upon his recognizance to appear at the st this mornin colored, 21 years old, court, is being held by second precinct for inves- tigation in connection with a traffic accident last night in which Miss Alice Roberts, 20 years old, 1415 Massachu- stis avenue, was knocked down by his automobile a5 he was proceeding south d Thomas Ehe was taken ut her head and body, later d W return home, 73 years old, of 328 ed a fractured | evening when bile as he was the street at First G. Green, 711 G as the driver of the flett was removed to rs old, of @10 st, while crossing the 600 block of Alabama r yesterday was hit autsmoblle Root H 1 oad hepherd Horpital in | ed for s about his iis car north on uight Dr. Leslie treet, sUruck 9-year 1630 Montague cross the st child home and ich were found B re utomoble | Coleman of | 1620 I wr's office s brought u terday after tound w Botpital su- or by a Uuck e wla 1 ¢ was run Washingbon, u Buuth | e shun il Kramer, the school yesterday evening of a “Founder’s Day Pageant, of the Carbery Parent-Teacher Association. OIL FIRMS' BATTLE. REPORTED SETTLED Standard and Dutch Shell Interests Said to Have Smoothed Differences. By tie Asn NEW YORK, February 18--The World sald today that the Standard Ol Co. of New York and the Royal Duteh Bhell interests have patched up their differences and will call off the Internutional price war that 15 costing each millions of dollars, In the discussions that have been on, the paper sald, Walter le, president of the Standard 5 of New Jersey, has acted s arbitrator Sir. Henrd Deterding, managing di- rector of the Itoyal Dutch Shell, at- tacked the Stendard Ol Co. of New rk, for coptracts with the Soviet ernment for tie purchuse He has 1 mer owners of ol property sel the Hoviet government. should demuified The Btandard Ol Co. of New York, in i recent statement defended its pol- ey wnd served notice that it was pre- pared o defend itself at all costs W every murket of the world, “Lhe price war was centered in Indi be in- meeting of ity and Mont 1 ol Woman Universi Ioam k na the Chambwr ol cd Margiand Clly meiges for Guurgrs County, w the ! he Royal Dutch Bhell interests slashed prices In competition with tan ol oftered by the Btandard Ol Co ot New Yark Legion Women to Give Play I | LUKAY cast st AU 18 With talent except the directie Lilllan Cartwiight of Boston, ) e musical comedy. Here Comes Avabella " wil be pic Prented st Friday evening by e Auierican Leglon Auxiliury here, | Battery Low-Flying Army Blimps in Maneuvers Start Disaster Reports in Nearby Towns| created by their low-flylng tactics, which are part of their training. Bolling Field and The Star received numerous telephone calls from the vicinity of Landover, Cheverly, Tuxedo and Kenilworth, reporting an_airship in distress. While taking cognizance of the reports, officers at Bolling Field recalled the numerous scares that have been created when the blimps dive down below the horizon. The non-rigid alrships soon were accounted for and radio reports from the blimps showed | them to be in satisfactory condition | | ‘Those blimps from Langley Field, Va., which ever so often make cross- country training flights to Washington and spend several hours in this neigh- borhood, struck fear into the hearts of nearby Maryland residents late yester- day with their low-flylng maneuvers, and soon the rumor had spread that one of them had crashed. The blimps, however, were safely in their hangar at Langley Field shortly after dark last night, and the personnel knew nothing of the alarm they had EDWIN C. JONES DIES AT PROVIDENCE HOSPITAL | PHONE RATE HEARING IN BETHESDA TUESDAY Business Man Here for 28 Years Belonged to Many Fraternal Organizations. County Federation Committes to Obtain Views ou Extension of Washington Service. Edwin C. Jones, 50 years old, owner of the Acme & New England Duco Corporation, and prominent in local fraternal organizations, died at Provi- dence Hospital yesterday after an illness | of several months Although n native of Barbados s had Mved i Washington fo 26 years, and resided at 142 o avenue northeast - Jones was n member of the Wash- Ington Council, Knlghts of Columbus; AlcantaraCaravan, Order of the Al- hambra; the City Club, the Washington Automotive Trade Assoclation and the Civitan Club, He 13 survived by his widow, Mrs. Han- nie J. Jones; two daughters, Miss Edna and Miss Norsas E. Jones, an_adopted son, John Paul Jones, all of this city and a stster, Miss Catherine Jones of Barbados Funeral sorvices will Monday mordog at the Chureh of the Holy Comtarter Roy Clarence 1 Wheeler will officiate and interment will Lo Mount Olivet Cemotery The best customer of the United States Patent Office 18 Ethan T Dodds of New York sitate, who has 1,800 pat- cils on alivad inventions ‘The leglslation and legal action com- mittee of the Montgomery County Civic Federation will hold a public hearing on the proposed new telephone service and rates for the Bethesda ares at the Be- thesda schoolliouse ‘Thursday at 8 pm “The meeting has b culled by the chatrman of the committee, J. Bond Bmith, as the result of a resolution adopted by the civic federation dele- gates at thelr regular meeting last Mon- day. The committee at this meeting will ¥ protests from Bethesda citizens on the proposed telephone plan, Bethesda citizens, supported by the Bothesda Ohmber "of Commerce, contend tht the Washington metropolitan telephone service und rates should be extended to inelude the communities of Edgemoor Park, Wootmont and other populated sections of the Bethesdi sec Hot. The present plan of the telepl company would stop this - Washington metiopolitan service at the B & 0O tracks I Bethesdn and deprive all of Ciese communities north of the tracks of the so-called Wishington service and 1utes unless subscpilers pald additional dillcuge chinrges, My the Ten- be conducted ! SCHOOL YOUNGSTERS PRESENT PAGEANT FOR PARENT-TEACHER GROUP. Pupils of the Carbery School. who took part in the presentation at in observance of the thirty-first birthday of the National Parent-Teachers' Congress. Stephen E. ssistant superintendent of schools, and Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter, president of the local Parent-Teachers' Congress, addressed the monthly meeting Washington Star Photo. RUMANIAN ENVOY'S. TRANGFER HINTED can Post. By the Associated Press BUCHAREST, Runu 181t George Cretziano, to the Rumantan was reported here today {Bucharest Report Says Cret-i ziano Will Go to Vati- February that Minister nited States, who recently filed | A protest with the State Department | RECORDER'S OFFICE DRY LAW QUIZ SENT CHANGE PROPOED WILLIS AND CURTIS i Zihiman Introduces Bill to La Guardia Asks Presidential Place Deeds Official | Aspirants as to Stand Under District. on Enforcement. f the ed by the President to serve a term of ee years, T second recorder, the recorder wou $10,000 bond and second deputy under $5.000. All receipts of the office w deposited tn the U to the credit of th bia. The accou rict of Col he office wo transmitted 1o 3 office. All payments of sal miscellaneous exp the disbursing rict. The bill prov other instrum law to be recorded be recorded by printed fo ing machines or by photas It also provides for existing records these recoples legal force and e It requires ev ired outside of t} | certificate before doing | Dstrict. | busine ificate is fled |BUILDING DESIGN STUDIED X Builders Near Capital May 3o REFERENDUM IS ASKED. Asked to Change Pla The Senate District comm Against a rald by American prohibitton | cided y agents on the home of Alfred the Vatican shortly. The foreign office refused to confirm or deny the rumor. It was sald today at the Rumanian | grganteat legation that no word has been re- oy the cof reported plan Vatiean. | was manifested i the re« of the Cretaiano to the cetved here transfer Mr Interest E. Nor ris in New York, will be transferred to ) the exterior & o port by an attache, who satd he spoke for the Mintster “We have no report,” the atta confirmation he stated of the DRY PERJURER JAILED. Ex-Federal Agent Qets Two Years for False Affidavit Edwin M. Oliver, o Was sent (o the penttentiary yoars for making a fale aida ot cuse before Needham © Bust 18t Oliver sweating that he had made a whisky Hampton, 1418 G atreet search wartant - was - isued strength of Oliver's afidaviy o Vit former apecial ofi- for the Depattment of Agriculture o noa Tun United States Commissioner by o Au ot from the home of Edwant ¢ northeast Al the in an e B strvet. nes | butlding bemng er a Devause Delaware ave | faces the Capttal g | Edward Keat wid the t B st s organtzation jthe commis lauest - th jbullding, which has been | the same block. The aunmittee & Iln Arrange & cont ’u‘\'l. Probably next week | CRAMTON HI.TS “WETS." 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